Travel To A Fantastic Place With These Fairy Tale Illustrations

Liga Klavina”s illustrations can transport you to your favorite book of fairy tales from childhood. Hailing from Latvia, artist and illustrator Klavina creates these timeless images using watercolor and ink. She uses delicate lines and soft colors to bring favorite characters, both old and new, to life.

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

An illustration for the Norwegian fairy tale, in which a girl must save a prince.

Cold Hands

Under the Stars

An illustration from Tolkien”s The Silmarillion.

Unhappy Fate

From The Silmarillion.

Tuor

A Tolkien character.

Bellatrix

From the Harry Potter series.

Elements – Earth

Faerie Night

A Storm is Coming

A Tolkien character.

At Mother”s Grave

An illustration for Cinderella, where our heroine plants a hazel tree on her mother”s grave. This provides her with the gowns and slippers for the ball.

Twilight and Mist

Legend has it that a ring of mushrooms is a “fairy ring” that can be perilous to unsuspecting humans.

Glorfindel

A Tolkien character.

Winter Fairy Tale

Eliza

The heroine from the fairy tale The Wild Swans, about a girl who must save her seven brothers from a magic spell.

Rosehip Crown

Her work”s classic, traditional look is appealing in its nostalgic feeling and approachable nature. However, Klavina keeps her work fresh and modern with subtle, sophisticated color choices and a looseness of paint application that makes the images appear to shimmer. The light, quick brushstrokes and linework prevent the images from becoming too stuffy or heavy. The cleanly drawn faces have a modern look, and the result is a blend of the classic with the new. Though her work deals with fairy tale and fantasy, her images remain grounded thanks to their subtlety. However, that”s not to say they aren”t perfectly magical.

You can see more of Klavinas work on deviantART, as well as on Facebook.